Spices add flavour, aroma, and colour to our food, making them an essential part of global cuisines. Although most of the ...

Cultivating saffron, the world's most expensive spice, is surprisingly feasible at home, even in small spaces. Starting with ...

Plant them as soon as you get them at a depth of 7.4 to 10 cm (3 to 4 inches). If you think the soil is poor, it’s worth enriching it with some compost or a good soil-amending product such as ...

Learn how to cultivate saffron at home and discover three easy, delicious ways to include this golden spice in daily meals.

Saffron is a rare spice which grows only in few places in the world. Derived from the flower of Crocus Sativus or Saffron Crocus, the spice has exceptional medicinal properties and is commonly ...

Saffron — the most expensive spice in the world — has been revered for its medicinal properties since ancient times. Here are 11 impressive health benefits of saffron.

For almost 100 years, there has been controversy as to the possible parent species of the saffron crocus are. If the parent species were known, changes could be inserted into the crocus genome by ...

Flowers and stigmas of Crocus Sativus, the saffron crocus, lay on a table, during saffron harvest on November 4, 2008 in Tuscany, Italy. (AFP via Getty Images) ...

In over two decades, while studying saffron reproductive biology, we frequently found ultrastructural alterations typical of potyvirus infection in stigmas, styles and leaves of Crocus sativus ...